Posts in 2016

Just before Christmas, we are going to release the last Core Update for 2016. IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 108 brings some minor bug fixes and feature enhancements, some security fixes in @ntp@ and various fixes in the Stefan G@ web proxy.

Hi,

because many struggle with this quite often, I would like to re-port a brief text from this blog from 2013 about how to write a good bug report:

The time is ready to get the last Core Update of the year out to all our users. That means testing, testing, testing... Luckily this is a small update with only a few minor bug fixes and some security fixes in @ntp@ and fixes in the Stefan G@ web proxy.

Over the last few months, I found myself sitting at my desk thinking about IPFire hardware quite often. It is not that there is nothing around. It is quite the opposite that makes me think: There is too much on the market. Or better: Too much "fancy" stuff.

Hello,

it has been a long time since my last proper post on this blog, but today is finally the day where I found some time to sit down and tell you a short story about DNSSEC.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 107. It mainly comes with a fix for the Dirty COW vulnerability in the Linux kernel and fixes various issues with the latest DNS proxy update in Core Update version 106.

The next Core Update with number 107 is available for testing and mainly comes with a fix for the Dirty COW vulnerability in the Linux kernel. "Please help us testing!":http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/configuration/ipfire/pakfire/testing

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 106 which comes with a number of exciting new features, many bug fixes and a few security improvements.

Finally, the next Core Update with number 106 is available for testing. It comes with a number of exciting new features, many bug fixes and a few security improvements. "Please help us testing!":http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/configuration/ipfire/pakfire/testing

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 105 which patches a number of security issues in two cryptographic libaries: @openssl@ and @libgcrypt@. We recommend installing this update as soon as possible and reboot the IPFire system to complete the update.

With the "last Core Update":http://www.ipfire.org/news/ipfire-2-19-core-update-104-released just being released a few days ago, it is time for the next one already. IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 105 patches a number of security issues in two cryptographic libaries: @openssl@ and @libgcrypt@

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 – Core Update 104.
This update brings you a new kernel under the hood and a from scratch rewritten Guardian.

Since 2011, we ship "qemu":http://qemu.org/ as a package which makes it possible to virtualise another system on IPFire. This was very hard to use because there was no really nice way to create a new machine and to administrate them. Until now! After a lot of work and testing, I am happy to announce that libvirt is now available as a package for IPFire.

We has rebuild core104 with Linux kernel 3.14.79 because there are some critical network and filesystem fixes.
If you have installed core104 before 14.Sep set /opt/pakfire/db/core/mine back to 103 and reinstall the update.

Update:
The update was rebuild with kernel 3.14.79 because there are some network and filesystem fixes.
If you have installed core104 before 14.Sep you should set /opt/pakfire/db/core/mine back to 103 and reinstall the update.

Hello,

today I would like to announce that a new Italian IPFire Community has been started. On "www.ipfireitalia.it":http://www.ipfireitalia.it/ you will find a new website and forum in Italian language that was set up by Umberto and Stefano to help to spread use of IPFire in Italy and other Italian-speaking communities in the world.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 103. This update contains various stability fixes and updates a number a packages under the hood.

The latest Core Update has been uploaded to the testing repository and we would like to invite everyone to join us in testing it. This update contains various stability fixes and updates a number a packages under the hood.

samba 3.6.25-63 has uploaded to testing trees. Please test and report to IPFire Mailinglist.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 102. This update contains various security fixes in the OpenSSL library. It is recommended to install this update as soon as possible.

With the last Core Update being released only yesterday, we went back to the lab and baked you a new one with the latest OpenSSL security fixes from today.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 101. This update contains various security fixes and bug fixes. These are the changes in detail:

samba 3.6.25-62 has uploaded to testing trees. Please test and report to IPFire Mailinglist.

Today I would like to share a short story with you about a bug that was introduced in the last Core Update. The bug was that when a PPTP server was hosted behind IPFire, the connection could not be fully established. Here is why that happened, why this bug went all the way into the release, and what happened afterwards...

Hello,

just a few days after the release of IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 100, we uploaded the upcoming Core Update to the testing tree and would like to ask all of you to take part in testing it.

samba 3.6.25-61 has uploaded to testing trees. Please test and report to IPFire Mailinglist.

clamav 0.99.1-31 is uploaded to IPFire 2.19.1 testing trees. Please report results to IPFire Developer Mailinglist soon.

It is a great moment to us and we are very proud to release the 100th Core Update today.

"PC Engines":http://pcengines.ch has send me a free sample of the "APU2C4":http://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm for testing.

The one hundredth Core Update for IPFire is available for testing. This will bring you IPFire 2.19 which we will also release for 64 bit on Intel (x86_64). This release was delayed by the various security vulnerabilities in @openssl@ and @glibc@, but is packed with many improvements under the hood and various bug fixes.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.17 - Core Update 99. Another OpenSSL security fix has been released, so that we created this Core Update that fixes that among some other security vulnerabilities.

Hello,

an other OpenSSL security fix has released, so that we created this Core Update that fixes that among some other security vulnerabilities. As this is a rather urgent update, we would like to ask as many people to test this. If all works out well, we would like to release this update tomorrow (on Friday).

The next part of the german IPFire video tutorials is about the "OpenVPN Roadwarrior". This is a step-by-step tutorial of how to create a roadwarrior and how to connect from a client computer or Android to the IPFire system.

Due to a recently discovered security vulnerability in glibc, we are releasing this Core Update that contains a fix for CVE-2015-7547.

Due to a recently discovered security vulnerability in glibc, we are releasing this Core Update that contains a fix for CVE-2015-7547.

Hello,

I would like to announce that we are ready to move the project to our new hosting infrastructure soon. That work is planned to be done this Monday, starting from about 10 pm UTC and will probably take 12 hours. Some services might not be available for longer that that. The outage will include all IPFire services.

The next part of the german IPFire video tutorials is about the "Firewall options". These settings are essential when someone wants to use the IPFire system as a firewall. As some options are difficult to understand i walked through the options and tried to describe every setting.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.17 - Core Update 97. An other OpenSSL security fix has been released, which is shipped in this Core Update among some other security vulnerabilities. As this is a rather urgent update, we recommend to install it as soon as possible. We also recommend rebooting after the update has been installed.

Hello,

an other OpenSSL security fix has released, so that we created this Core Update that fixes that among some other security vulnerabilities. As this is a rather urgent update, we would like to ask as many people to test this. If all works out well, we would like to release this update tomorrow (on Friday).

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.17 - Core Update 96. This update comes with many smaller changes and security fixes.

h3. Happy new year!

At last years IPFire Developer Summit in London, we talked about how to help people who are not familiar with firewalls - e.g. the home users. As it is very difficult to make tutorials and documentation for a wide range of user skills, one idea was to write advanced documentation to the Wiki and go on YouTube for the quick'n'dirty solutions.